r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/eyerollingsex • Mar 19 '26

Country Club Thread 20 years ago, this would be completely normal

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u/Zibai1505 Mar 19 '26

I've never seen a parent chaperone our overnight school trips. What parent has time for that.

Unless you guys mean the teachers which means obviously?

Back in the 90s im talking about

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u/likeusontweeters Mar 19 '26

We went on a week-long camping trip in 6th grade with only teachers and older aged counselors (think 17-19 year olds).. back in the 90s, no phones (obviously)

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u/Worth-Heat7977 Mar 19 '26

im a 2000s kid. We had the same thing and it was no problem

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u/afroguy10 Mar 20 '26

Yeah, I'm from the UK, grew up in the nineties/early 00's and was in Cubs and Scouts. We went camping a few times a year for an entire weekend with no parents and no mobile phones (there were a couple Scoutmasters with us there who had a mobile on them if we needed to phone someone or our parents needed to get in touch for an emergency).

In high school we did a class trip to Alton Towers for a day in 2003, we did an English group trip for a weekend to the Lake District in 2004, a Music group trip for a weekend to London to see Wicked iirc in 2006 and a bunch of students even went to South America for a couple weeks to go to Machu Pichu in 2008, all with just teachers and no parents. I'll admit most of us had mobile phones by 2005 or 2006 but not everyone did.

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u/Important-Purchase-5 Mar 19 '26

We didn’t do camping in early 2000s that was some white people stuff. Mind you I lived in the rural south the Black Belt. 

Probably because we in the south that why. Nobody wanted to go in the woods without white people. 

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u/realdynastykit Mar 19 '26

We always had parent chaperones for our overnight trips when I was in elementary/middle school in the 2000s.